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24 July 2017

BONAIRE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER CALLS ON U.N. INTERVENTION

To the Minister of the
Interior and Kingdom Relations, R.H.A. Plasterk,

President of the 1st Chamber,
Mrs. Broekrs- Knol and members

President of the Second
Chamber Mrs. Khadija Arib and members

Turfmarkt 147

2500 EA Den Haag

Netherlands.

Bonaire, July 20, 2017

Subject: your letter
reference:

2017-0000318708 Appeal Sint Eustatius on the United Nations Charter

Dear Minister Plasterk, Mrs.
Broekrs-Knol, Mrs Khadija Arib and members of the 1st and 2nd
chamber,

We request your attention to
the following regarding your aforementioned letter to Sint Eustatius and our
previous letters directed to your Minister, 1st Chamber and 2nd
Chamber regarding violation of the peoples of Sint Eustatius and Bonaire
Self-Determination and Human Rights:

First of all we would like to
make clear to Mr Plasterk and his administration and colleagues who are
cooperating with Mr Plasterk inhumane views and policies that above-mentioned
rights are inalienable, indivisible and pertains exclusively to the people of
Sint Eustatius and Bonaire and not to the consent or discussion of the
colonizer and the administering power.

Mr Plasterk answers that he
does not respect the United Nations Charter as accorded and co-signed by the
Netherlands in 1945 and will resort to his own
interpretation hereof and further that his non-respect and own
interpretation should not be a surprise.
We feel as it may seems hypocritical that Mr Plasterk does not
understand the main objective the United Nations was founded after the WWII ,
was because of the annexation and occupation of Holland by Hitler, Germany. At
10-10-10, Holland has done the same to annex and occupy the innocent, humble
peoples of Sint Eusatius and Bonaire showing no remorse and respect to
humanity. These inhuman actions are now putting light back on the hidden dark
Dutch colonial history, where we were ahead and making progress in the healing
and reconciliation process and now Mr Plasterk and colleagues are reincarnating
this taboo, where the Dutch were the world cruelest colonizers. We invite Mr
Plasterk and colleagues to view a short summary of “what every Dutch should
know” and most important for Mr Plasterk that has to have a exemplary and
honorable position as Minister representing the Dutch peoples.

We are only hoping after Mr
Plasterk and his colleagues understanding of our common history and past will
realize that they have been miseducated as human beings and the people of Sint
Eustatius and Bonaire also are equally human beings same as them, and to our
salvation and to avoid another humanitarian crisis, Mr Plasterk and colleagues
will interpret the Charter of the United Nations in the correct human context
and not continue in the same inhuman path as their forefathers.

We totally disagree with Mr
Plasterk which states that now Sint Eustatius (same as Bonaire) has the status
as public body within the Netherlands and that in discussions with the United
Nations it has been confirmed that relations within the Kingdom are an internal
affair and these discussions can be done without the intervention of the United
Nations. At this point Mr Plasterk is confirming all above that the Dutch
government does not respect United Nations Charter and does not respect
democracy, and is confusing himself as island council members elections is not
same as a self-determination referendum choice of political equality, because
only the people can decide on a change of status as the case of 10-10-10. Not
the possibly bribed, corrupted, extorted local and Dutch politicians, decides
on the self-determination and human rights of the peoples. The peoples of Sint Eustatius and Bonaire
never opted for this imposed illegal status and all illegal democratic attempts
by the Dutch to legitimize this illegal status has failed up to now.

Last March 2017 Dutch
elections over 80% of the peoples of Statia and Bonaire rejected Mr Plasterk
and the Dutch second chamber politicians as their representatives. In their
respective 2014 and 2015 referendum the same rejection, which constituted
of a legitimate refutation of this
illegal public body status. For sure the
United Nations naturally will tell the visiting Dutch colonizer officials that
they should adhere to the set Charters and resolutions of the United Nations
that are a clear mandate and that there is an official translation of the
Charter of the UN in Dutch language to avoid any kind of misinterpretation. And
of course that this is an internal exercise as the whole world has adhere to
and the Dutch government duty is very simple as to respect, protect and comply.

What the United Nations never
would have thought was that these Dutch officials, as Mr Plasterk is stating,
would have their own interpretation of the United Nations Charter contrary to
these clear set human values and rights. To refresh Mr Plasterk and colleagues
memory that it is a shame that it came to our understanding that the Dutch
delegates helped by the Antillean elite(bribed, extorted?) in 1955 misinformed and manipulated the
United Nations General Assembly, resolution 945, in a controversial and
disputed vote, to discharge the Netherlands of its reporting obligations under
the condition that we, as colonized Antillean islands, will remain under the
protection of article 73. And this discharge can be revoked at any time in the
future, as this was a safeguard for us , the colonized Antillean islands to
come back and knock at the door of the United Nations if the need arise.

This
exercise of the United Nations was because the majority did not trust the Dutch
government which duty was to comply with political equality in accordance with
self-governance standards. Instead the Netherlands did set the Antilles in a
direction of self-destruction which became in effect on 10-10-10 with the
dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles and Holland re-captured, annexed and
occupied the smaller in-defensive islands of Sint Eustatius, Bonaire and Saba
and started a new era of recolonization in the Caribbean region.

To finalize we would like to
remind Mr Plasterk and colleagues that recently in United Nations, General
Assembly, Special Committee on Decolonization C24 seminar reported that the
Netherlands holds colonies again in the Caribbean (BES-islands) and that the
United Nations has ruled that colonialism is a crime against humanity and that
the peoples of a colonized territory has the right to use all measures which
they desire to get out of colonialism and this is in accordance with United
Nations and international law.